Genealogy Van Elzelingen, Oudenes en de Kwaasteniet » Kornelis de Jong (1887-????)

Birthday September 13, 1887

• The temperature on September 13, 1887 was about 11.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
  • February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
  • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
  • May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
  • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
  • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » LeRoy Samse, American pole vaulter († 1956)
• 1885 » Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)
• 1886 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor († 1925)
• 1886 » Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1887 » Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1890 » Antony Noghès, French-Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix († 1978)